Method of packing welding rods and a bundle for the same



Nov. 11, 1930.

1. c. ARMOR METHOD OF PACKING WELDING RODS AND A BUNDLE FOR THE SAME Filed Feb. l, 192:

R O T N E V m Patented Nov. 11, 1930 PAT NT GFFECE JAMES C. ARMOR, OF WEST VIEW, IPENNSYLVANIA METHOD OF PACKING VJELZDING RODS AND A BUNDLE FOR THE SAME Application filed February l/Velding rods, which are used in electrical and also in acetylene welding, are frequently coated with a mixture of a dust, usually calcium carbonate or a silicious substance together with a suitable binder, such as water glass. According to the present pract e these coated rods are assembled in bundles for storage and shipment, and the at ve movement between the rods composing the bundles tends to loosen the more or less friable flux coating causing it to drop off, so t at when the rods are used they are found delicient in the amount of the required flux. Again after one or more of the rods are removed from the bundle the rest are so loos-elf, held that they are li rely to become scattered or further damaged.

One of the objects which I have in view 5 the provision of a novel bundle of weldng reds which will prevent relative movement between the rods composing the bundle and thus obviate the abrasion of tire flu coating from the individual. rods.

Another object is to provide a bundle of 5 such character that the rods remaining in the bundle, after one or more have been removed will not become loosened from eac other until used.

in the. accompanying drawings, wherein l have illustrated the best embodiment of the principles of my invention now known to me,

Fig. 1 is an end view of a bundle of welding rods Fig. 2 a perspective of the same; Fig.

3 a perspective of one of the rods removed from the bundle and separated from its fellows, and Fig. 4 a perspective of a modified form of the bundle.

Referring first to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 1 represents the welding rods which are of the material required for welding purposes, such as steel.

Said rods are united together by the appli cation of the mixture of flux and binder while the same is in fluid form, the rods being disposed side by side and the flux and binder mixture forming a connecting web 2 which coats the rods and connects them rigidly together when it is dry. The connected series 0f rods thus form flat layers which are then stacked one on the other as shown in Figs.

1 and 2 with interposed str' material such as cardboard lar cardboard strips and bottom of the stack Serial No. 251,201.

protective with simiat the top and A paper encl sure 6 is then wrapped around the stack and the bundle is ready for storage and shipment.

hen the rods are to layers is slid the paper envelope lifted out. A red is be used, one of the lengthwise from the bundle or is torn oil and a layer then broken oil the layer,

flux so that the rod may be insertet into a suitable holder in the usual manner.

In Fig. ll show the rods formed into a round bundle cemented together and surrounded by the flu the rods being torn from the bundle as required.

it is obvious that the flux-coated surfaces of adjacent rods a relative movement effect on the more re thus prevented from and thus the abrading or less friable liner is avoided, and therefore the rods are in proper condition when the complished.

What I desire to welding operation is acclaim is 1. The method of forming welding rods,

which are coated with flux and packages for storage and a binder, into shipment, which comprises arranging the rods together in layers while the fiuX and binder are still plastie and allowing th so that the rods are cemented together, and

e flux and binder to dry forming a bundle of said layers by stacking the same with strips of protective material interposed between the layers to secure the stacked layers together.

2. The method 0 which are coated with flux f forming welding rods, and a binder, iii-to packages for storage and shipment, which comprises arranging the rods together in layers while the flu tie and allowing th and binder are still plase flux and binder to dry so that the rods are cemented together, and

securing the stacked layers in an out er protective cover to hold them together.

Signed at Pittsburgh, Pa, this 30th of January, 1928.

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JAMES C. ARMOR. 

